The mortals must face the rising Darkness alone. An ambitious and beautifully written story, The Last Guardian of Everness is an heroic adventure that establishes John Wright as a significant new fantasist. It is just the start of a story that will conclude in the companion volume, Mists of Everness. more/5(45). ""The Last Guardian of Everness" is a sublime cocktail of Jungian satire, incantatory Vancean language, and screwball semi-divine comedy; witty, cantankerous, and awesomely eloquent, John C. Wright amazes in fantasy as much as he has done in SF."-"Locus" "Already regarded as one of the best science fiction writers of the last decade for his stirring Golden Age trilogy, John C. Wright proves he has the /5(16). An ambitious and beautifully written story, The Last Guardian of Everness is an heroic adventure that establishes John Wright as a significant new fantasist. It is just the start of a story that will conclude in the companion volume, Mists of Everness/5(34).
""The Last Guardian of Everness" is a sublime cocktail of Jungian satire, incantatory Vancean language, and screwball semi-divine comedy; witty, cantankerous, and awesomely eloquent, John C. Wright amazes in fantasy as much as he has done in SF."-"Locus" "Already regarded as one of the best science fiction writers of the last decade for his stirring Golden Age trilogy, John C. Wright proves he. John C. Wright previous fantasy novels, the Epic Chronicles of Everness, were lavishly praised by both readers and reviewers. Now he embarks on an ambitious new saga that explores the overlapping boundaries of science, mythology, and the imagination. The rave reviews for John Wright's science fiction trilogy, The Golden Age, hail his debut as the most important of the new century. Now, in The Last Guardian of Everness, this exciting and innovative writer proves that his talents extend beyond SF, as he offers us a powerful novel of high fantasy set in the modern age. Young Galen Waylock is the last watchman of the dream-gate beyond which.
Wright ended “Guardians” with one Hell of a cliffhanger. I don’t have too much more to say, really. Wright combines mythologies seamlessly and their is a nice strain of humor running through the book as well which helps lighten the mood. The character of Wendy could be a bit annoying early on, but I got used to her. Author: John C. Wright. Publisher: Tor, Hardcover: $ Length: pages. ISBN: ISBN Nowadays we tend to lump science fiction, fantasy and horror under the generic umbrella of “speculative fiction”, but it still seems to me that the three genres, at their respective bests, have different objectives. An ambitious and beautifully written story, The Last Guardian of Everness is an heroic adventure that establishes John Wright as a significant new fantasist. It is just the start of a story that will conclude in the companion volume, Mists of Everness.
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